I believe that in the not too distant future, google will put less and less emphasis on backlinks in determining the ranking of your website, and focus almost exclusively on the quality and content of your website in determining its rankings.

Why? Because the initial purpose of ranking by backlinks was to recognise that good sites would tend to provide links to other good sites. And also that it was the best indication that google had at the time.

The backlinking method has been totally bastardised by a deluge of dodgy backlinking schemes, methods, and tactics. For the last few years, people have been rewarded for building huge networks of backlinks instead of for creating good content.

Wake up and smell the coffee guys.
Google is getting better and better at rating the quality of a site based on the content of that site. It doesn’t NEED backlinks to tell it that a site has good content any more. Just read up on Google and their use of Latent Semantic Indexing

And I think that pretty soon, the quality of your content will be the primary ranking factor. And your gabillion backlinks from all sorts of dodgy article directories and link farm sites won’t be worth much at all.

So  if you think that backlinks are all that is necessary to get good search engine results, then I wish you all the best for the future.

regards,
Eric G.

Those “get rich quick” merchants who try hard to separate you from your money have an important role.

They collect the “Stupid Tax”. (more…)

For the last couple of weeks, mega marketer Frank Kern and his army of affiliates have been pumping out message after message about his $1997 List control product.

You’ve undoubtedly seen the messages if you are on the mailing list of any of the members of the Guru syndicate.

Now, Frank has a reputation for selling out quickly – usually within hours. For this promotion, he has provided his usual build up of information and bonuses.

But after more than 2 days, emails are still going out promoting this product.

Ex car salesman Mike F. is flogging it hard.

Today, there’s an email from Frank himself that says;

Hey, Frank here with some cool news! Check it out:

List Control has been going so extremely well, I’ve decided to give one of my most requested pieces of content out to anyone who buys it.

It’s called the.$23.8 Million Dollar Swipe File-

Now, Blind Freddy can see that if this product had been going like his other launches, it would have sold out by now. He didn’t have to add additional bonuses because “they were going so well”.

I’m thinking that it’s not going well at all.

I’m thinking that people have had enough of these mega launches for these hugely expensive products, with all the hype, glitter, affiliate bonus frenzy, and all that.

The punters seem to be keeping their wallets closed.

Or have they come to the conclusion that the product is a Frankified version of stuff that’s most likely available elsewhere on the net at a much lower price, or for free?

What do you think? cheers, Eric G.

I’m very attracted to people who have commonsense, and Perry Marshall has got lots of it.

I read his newsletters I read as soon as they arrive in my inbox.
Today’s is a beauty. Perry looks at the problems of education systems.

The ones that prepare our kids for the world.

He comes to the conclusion that there’s something really wrong with systems that take 13 years to take our kids to a level which barely qualifies them for a $7 per hour job at a fast food store.

But it’s also an inspiring article.
Read it and let me know if you agree.

The gigantic horrible lie about education

regards,
Eric G.

Hi,

I case you haven’t noticed, video is the new “Wunderkind” of the internet , and it will make you money, cure cancer, and grow back your hair.

Some people use video very well. Others – err – don’t.

Warning: RANT ahead.
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Keeping track of all the passwords you use for the many internet sites you visit is a real problem.

For the past few years, I’ve used RoboForm – which is regarded as the best password manager and form filler available.

I recently stopped using it. Here’s why.

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It’s probably NOT YOU!

To discover who is in charge of your online business, here’s the worlds shortest quiz.

It only has one question, and you might not like the answer.
The question is:

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In the “Real World” we are easily able to analyse situations and generally make good decisions.

For example:

The transport driver next door buys a new truck, which allows him to increase his profits by 50%. Do we go out and buy a new truck so that we can increase OUR income? Of course not.

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A local neuroscientist leading a team of 10 people in groundbreaking Altzheimer’s research has lost 6 months of research data and analysis.
Because his laptop was stolen. And he had no backup of the data.
http://www.themercury.com.au/article…ania-news.html
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A while ago, I received an email about a new Web 2.0 related product by Dr Joe Vitale, (Doctor Fire) who is a well known Internet Marketer. I haven’t bought anything from Dr. Joe before, and the sales letter did its work so I dutifully punched in my card number.

Oh my. (more…)